- From: Matthew Tylee Atkinson via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 21:47:39 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
I'd like to mention an additional supporting use (particularly for including top and bottom) case I've come across for several years (partly as a vision-impaired person, but I think this generalises pretty well). We have had widescreen (and now even wider-screen) monitors for some time, and a lot of vertical screen space is wasted by things like toolbars that run along the top/bottom of apps. For me, this is exacerbated by my use of UI scaling to increase the size of UI controls and text - the wasted vertical space gets pretty big at times. I would love to be able to move some toolbars to the sides instead. There are examples in some GUI environments where you can place things like taskbars/panels on the top/bottom or either side - far fewer extend this to general app toolbars too. Though some environments and applications let you position toolbars on any of the four sides. E.g. [Inkscape (screenshots page)](https://inkscape.org/about/screenshots/) even automatically puts some toolbars on the left/right (rather than top/bottom) according to screen space, and it can position tool pallettes/docked windows on the left or right. It would be great if mainstream operating systems and their standard GUI widget libraries would offer this flexibility, including for in-app toolbars. The web could leapfrog other platforms here. We discussed this on the Accessible Platform Architectures WG call today (thanks to @AutoSponge for the 'heads up' about this conversation), though this comment represents my personal (albeit I hope helpful as a datum point) perspective. -- GitHub Notification of comment by matatk Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10244#issuecomment-2089188778 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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